Starting today, Fight Against Diabetes World Day, diabetic children and their parents can have a free application for their mobile phones that will let them know the amount of carbohydrates that they would be instantly eating in the meals they are preparing to eat.

According to Medtronic, a developer of this tool, the application will help diabetic and doctors arrange a diet according to the patient profile in order to control the consumption of sugar.

This tool, called “Counting food with Lenny” is not exclusively for children with this disease, in a sense is focused on this segment of patients and their parents, to initiate, in an attractive manner, knowledge of food.

The World Health Organization indicates that in the world there are 346 million people with diabetes, over 80% of them in the developing world, while in Ecuador more than 90,000 people suffer from this disease.